Apo raid

The Apo raid occurred in 2015 when the Autodefensas, a vigilante group operating in the Mexican state of Michoacan, raided the town of Apo and arrested suspected Knights Templar Cartel members in their seventh town capture so far. Paco Rangel Valencia and his men entered houses and rounded up suspected Templars, and the Mexican Army eventually came into the town to disarm the vigilantes, claiming that they intimidated the local populace. However, the Autodefensas called all of the townspeople into the square, and they protested against the army, literally pushing them out of town by pushing their cars down the road. The Mexican Army was eventually forced to give the vigilantes their guns back,